Turn off Nav system, possible?

Wow. I stand in awe at your ability to fly speck and nit pick. Seriously, I have never heard the dvd spinning in my car. What does it sound like? Have you considered turning on the radio?

 

Have you taken it to dealer and complained?

 

I think this is a case of one person being extraordinarily picky...you hear the DVD spinning?!? How? Even when listening to the radio?

 

Thanks a lot! I heard the DVD whirring and clicking this morning and probably will hear it forever now. Frankly, I think I will forget it soon enough and I think that we might have far more important issues.

I would say forget about it, but it's your dime.

 

WOW ! Removing the Nav DVD and having to insert it again when it's needed ! That's right Up There with having to clean bird droppings off the car. Can't the Nav system just communicate with you by brain waves ? What was Toyota thinking ? You should demand a refund.

 

Give it a little while and the dash rattles will drown out the DVD sound - problem solved!

Tom

 

I have pretty good hearing and I thought I had picked out all the squeaks and rattles there were but I've never heard the DVD unit running. Are you sure you don't have an extra noisy DVD? Have the dealer take you for a ride in another Prius with Nav and see if you can hear it.

 

Sometimes the copied disks are out of balance or slightly out of round. This leads to more noise.

Tom

 

I completely agree with you, jzhou. I, too, hear the annoying repeated sound of the disc being read...I thought I had a defect, so I google'd it before posting a new thread and came across this one, ha! Hmmm...maybe it's best to report it to Toyota CS so we can hopefully get a fix if enough people call in for the same problem?? I don't know, but I hate going to the dealer because they usually make things worse... :/

For those who're calling us out and saying we're nit picking and/or being anal about something minute...I can assure you it's not. Yes, you may drown out the sound by upping the volume of whatever you're listening to, but that really isn't a solution for the times you want to cruise silently; times when you want to drown out EXTERNAL noise! So, unless you're paying for my Prius V or jzhou's Prius IV, don't call us out as if we can't rant about ACTUAL problems. Thank you.

 

Yeah, I noticed with any forum board, the trolls or fanboys tend to come down pretty hard on what they feel is an insignificant issue. (insignificant because it doesn't affect them directly).
Relating to the issue, I for one have never experienced any type of noise that I couldn't account for (coming out of the NAV system). And after driving mine for nearly a year, if the dvd was making a sound, I was never aware of it.

 

After your and jzhou's posts I had to go out and listen to the Nav system as I couldn't recall hearing it. I have to put my ear against the Nav to hear the DVD mechanism. I panned the map around and also changed search regions to make the DVD seek and I can hear it but again only by putting my ear against the console and that is with the car parked and the car in accessory mode. I would say that if you can hear it at all over the rode noise then your DVD mechanism is much louder than mine. If it bugs you, and i can see how it would, go get it fixed. I like the suggestion of comparing your Nav to another Prius at the dealer and if yours is really much louder than i suspect the mechanism has a problem and you have something to point to when you complain.

However, if your and the "new" prius sound the same, and it still bugs you, pull your Nav, sell it to another GenIII owner on ebay, and buy a nice Kenwood/Garmin in-dash system with the money.

 

I already called Toyota Customer Relations Dept. and reported my problems, which includes the audible DVD disc in the navi. Now, I just need to wait for my dealership's designated customer relations personnel to contact me for an appointment. If there is a possible fix, I will post an update after the issue has been resolved. I'll definitely compare it to other navi equipped priuses on the lot.

 

I someone is sensitive to ambient noise and wants to shut off the nav system when it is not in use, I respectfully request of my fellow chatters, to address these issues. Someday you may like an answer to a question.

 

In my Gen 2 Prius I have in setup options the option of not having the screen automatically default to the nav screen each time I start the car. When I want nav I have to open the application and wait for it to boot up, works for me...